Was there a “standing order” during former President Donald Trump’s administration that made the raid on Mar-a-Lago a groundless overreach by the federal government?
The former president’s people say yes.
In a statement Friday evening, Trump’s office insisted that all documents taken to the Florida estate were declassified under an order by the then-president, who was the ultimate arbiter of a document’s classification status.
According to the Washington Examiner, the statement was initially read on Fox News by conservative investigative journalist John Solomon.
“As we can all relate to, everyone ends up having to bring home their work from time to time. American presidents are no different,” the statement read. “President Trump, in order to prepare the work the next day, often took documents including classified documents to the residence. He had a standing order that documents removed from the Oval Office and taken to the residence were deemed to be declassified the moment he removed them.
“The power to classify and declassify documents rests solely with the president of the United States,” the statement concluded. “The idea that some paper-pushing bureaucrat with classification authority delegated by the president needs to approve the declassification is absurd.”
This jibes with a Friday post on Trump’s Truth Social platform in which the former president said the documents were “all declassified.”
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